SubscribeIf you enjoyed the book Running With Scissors, (by Augusten Burroughs) you will really like this book too! Its that kind of “different”. I couldn’t put this one down, and ended up reading it really fast. Josh Kilmer-Purcell has written down his memories of the years he spent working in advertizing by day, and working as a drag queen named Aqua by night. The book is fascinating and scary, and I was amazed that someone could live like that for so long and still have the brain cells left over to write a book with when all was said and done.
Kilmer-Purcell is gay, but not interested in becoming a woman. His alter ego, Aqua, is a drag queen with all the style and drama one might expect, and, with goldfish swimming around in her clear plastic breasts. I had no idea how long it actually takes to transform oneself like that, and was also very impressed with the variety of creative outfits and designs that Kilmer-Purcell created for Aqua. I don’t know how he managed to drink and occasionally do some coke while out at the clubs every night, sleep for a few hours only, and then get to work again the next day in one piece, and, to manage to do this for days and days on end, and actually remember most of what happened in that time. More than I could do! I need my sleep!
This book also describes the relationship Kilmer-Purcell had with a boyfriend named Jack, from the start of the relationship to the end. It started rather sweet, and got more and more scary as Jack, who worked as a male escort, became more and more addicted to crack.
The book is hysterically funny in places, especially some of the stories that take place in the clubs the drag queens do shows at. It’s also scary, and sad, and completely gripping. The book will be out sometime in February. I got to read an advanced copy, because I work at a bookstore. This is a very captivating book, where the reader will constantly wonder what will happen next, and then guess wrong each and every time.
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